Free supercharging once again for your Model S or X

At the end of last year, Tesla announced you would no longer get free supercharging with your Model S or X if you would not order before New Year and/or your car was not delivered before the end of March. Then it extended the period until January 15, 2017 to order your car and it had to be produced before April 15th. If you didn’t do it in that timeframe, you would lose free supercharging for life on the car and would get only 400kWh of free supercharging.

Tesla claims that that would get you free long distance driving, but I really don’t call 1500km anything close to "long distance". Sure, for a lot of people that might be enough to go on vacation. But my annual family road trip alone puts over 5.000km on the odometer. And then I go to seminars abroad on a regular basis too. So, for me, even though the supercharging would have cost me only @euro;0.23/kWh, it was something that pushed me over the fence and I actually ordered before New Year.

Now, however, Tesla has brought back free lifetime supercharging via the referral program, but with a few specific notes:

All cars that have been ordered in 2017 up until now are getting free lifetime supercharging after all

The referral link must be used at the same time as ordering the car. It cannot be added afterwards

The free lifetime supercharging is only valid for the first owner of the car and lasts only as long as he has the car

That last part is an important one. The free supercharging has always remained with the car and not with the owner. That means that if I were to sell my car to you, I would have lost free supercharging and you would get it with the car, even though it was no longer offered. Now, it’s a whole new game in the sense that with a new car, you still get the free supercharging, but once you sell the car, neither you, nor the buyer are entitled to it and it reverts back to the free 400kWh after which it becomes a paying charge. This new program started on May 19, 2017 and will last until the end of 2017.

Also, the referral program only allows an owner to refer 5 people that get this perk until the end of the year. That mans that there are still going to be cars that do not have the free supercharging. The cars that are ordered without using the referral link will still get the free 400kWh per year (reset on the date you bought the car and cannot be accumulated).

This goes for the new or inventory cars. But according to this article on Teslarati tesla has confirmed that existing owners will also keep their free lifetime supercharging when they buy a new car. Of course, idle fees of €0.40/minute will remain in effect (starts 5 minutes after charging has completed) for everyone to help avoid stalls being occupied for too long and to stop supercharger abuse.

So, if you are interested in buying a Tesla, but you were kind of held off by the free supercharging disappearing. Now you get your chance to get it anyway by using my referral link http://ts.la/steven1007. The link can be used for both new and inventory cars, not on CPOs (Certified Pre-Owned). Additionally, by using this link when you order you will get a €1.000 discount on your order. I know it is not much, but it is the only discount you will get on a new car.

The good part for me as an owner is that every time somebody uses my referral code I get closer to winning some cool prizes, such as a jacket, a small suitcase, a Model S for Kids, a Powerwall (which I really would like to get), the awesome 21″ Arachnid wheels or invites to factory tours and launch events. Every referral also gets me a ticket in the lottery to win a full option Ludicrous Model S or X for free (excluding taxes of course). That would help me get my wife in an electric car as well. So, every referral counts and is very much appreciated!

The best part of all is that up until June 15th, every referral counts both in this round and the one that was already started and ends on June 15th. So, that means getting a lottery ticket and counter increase towards the prizes in both referral programs. So, actually I should have said every referral counts TWICE and is extremely appreciated 🙂 !

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